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Subcommittee advances single-stair exception for certain midrise housing with fire-safety guardrails
Summary
The Senate Subcommittee on Housing voted to recommend passage, with amendments, of a bill that would allow a single stairway in residential buildings up to six stories provided specified fire-safety conditions are met.
The Senate Subcommittee on Housing voted to recommend passage, with amendments, of a bill that would allow a single stairway in residential buildings up to six stories provided specified fire-safety conditions are met.
The amended language narrows the earlier draft by incorporating the State Fire Marshal’s concerns: the single-stair option is limited to buildings that are fully sprinklered and that meet a per-floor area limit on the first floors (committee discussion referenced a…
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